There is no presentation this Friday. Instead there will be time to reflect on the past semester of MLRG, chat about the upcoming break and play the TAG card game that Thomas will be bringing. Hope to see you all there!
Investing language models from a FLT perspective has become a popular avenue of research. Abed will present a review paper that touches on different modeling architectures, circuit complexity and much more!
The Discrete Infinity Argument is a central pillar of generative grammar. It posits that every natural language is an infinite set of finite structures. The argument rests on the observation that natural languages allow patterns such as (I know that you know that)+ John snores. I will contend that the …
Gary Mar and colleagues will present their project “A Year of Magical Thinking” that uses new media and AI to introduce students, as well as logicians, mathematicians, and linguists to the breadth and depth of Gödel’s Theorems. Gödel is widely regarded as the greatest logician of the 20th century …
This week Kenneth will be presenting his work on agreement on multiple tiers.
Often, agreement targets the closest DP to some functional head which bears the right features. But in some languages there are other hierarchies, such person/animacy, which outrank structural closeness. Kenneth shows how such hierarchies can be …
BUFIA, the Bottom-Up Factor Inference Algorithm, is an algorithm for learning phonotactics.
Sarah will be presenting work on generalizing BUFIA to learn positive and negative grammars from unconventional string models.
Thomas got his hands on a new paper by Chesi and he has some thoughts.
Check the Google drive for the chance to have some thoughts on it too.
This week Jeff will be presenting joint work with Rémi Eyraud and Dakotah Lambert.
Much of phonology is centered around studying maps from underlying representations to surface representations, in the form of OT grammars, phonological rules and other formalisms.
Often these representation can be viewed as strings of symbols and …
There has been lots of work over the last ~20 years situating the phonotactics of natural language in certain classes of subregular languages and finding logical, automata-theoretic and algebraic characterizations of these classes.
This has allowed linguists not only to better understand the cognitive nature of phonological generalizations but also …
This week M will be presenting original research on compositional semantics.
Although compositional semanticists tend to have a lot to say about the logical forms of lexical items and sentences, they tend to have a lot less to say about what truly makes their theory run: the nature of semantic …